Clocks have been used for millennia to keep and measure time. Ancient civilizations used sundials and water clocks; since then, there have been candle clocks, incense clocks, hourglasses ...

The incense clock, originating in 6th century China, used slow-burning incense sticks to measure time, with varying lengths and aromas indicating different durations and hours.

INCENSE CLOCK. Dating to the Song dynasty (960-1279), the incense clock spread from China to Japan and other Asian locales. Although each version involved the burning of incense to track time, the ...

The Strawberry Alarm Clock play the Whisky a Go Go with Write Minded, Three / Sides, Return of the Leech, The Junglecats, Full Safari and Crane Song on Saturday, July 22. Tickets and more info ...

Incense burners, clockwise from far left: a Japanese Meiji-era bronze hen and rooster, from Naga Antiques, $8,500; ... A clock could be as simple as a fistful of joss sticks, ...

Incense as Time Keeper. The ancient Chinese developed a clock that told time by the burning of incense. The steady smoldering of an incense stick provides the periodic "motion" of the clock.

The members of the Strawberry Alarm Clock didn’t write those lyrics. Instead, those words are the product of John S. Carter, a record producer and A&R guy who would go on to work with Bob Seger ...

Consider the sixth-century Chinese incense clocks that tracked time by burning powdered incense on pre-measured labyrinthian paths. For me, growing up in a Hindu household, ...

The American acid-rock band the Strawberry Alarm Clock’s 1967 song “Incense and Peppermints” inevitably recalls the pervasiveness of scents like patchouli during the hippie era. “Occasions ...

Among the earliest clocks represented in the exhibit, she says, is a replica of a dragon-body incense clock, first used in China centuries ago.